Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Restoring Honor and Integrity to the White House

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday at his Maryland home on charges he used his computer in an attempt to seduce a child and transmitted harmful materials to a minor, according to the Polk County, Florida, Sheriff's Office. ...

In interviews with police, Doyle confessed and has agreed to waive extradition to Florida, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.

On March 12, according to a police statement, Doyle contacted a Polk County computer crimes detective posing online as a 14-year-old girl "and initiated a sexually explicit conversation with her ... Doyle knew that the 'girl' was 14 years old, and he told her who he was and that he worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."

Judd said that Doyle, in the first conversation, told the detective his position with DHS and "started immediately into pretty vulgar language. He explained in graphic detail the sexual acts he wanted to perform with this 14-year-old." ....

"Many of the conversations he initiated ... are too extraordinary and graphic for public release," a statement from the sheriff's office said. "I read the transcripts," Judd said. "I wanted to see if this was just as outrageous as the detectives depicted it ... It shocked all of us who have worked vice, narcotics, organized crime, homicides."

What's worse here, the fact that this middle-aged sleaze was preying on a fourteen-year-old girl to a degree that even the cops were stunned? Or that he was so unbelievably dumb that he bragged about his government position as part of his come-on technique?

Seriously, is there anyone at all in this goddamned administration who doesn't possess their unique combination of criminality and incompetence?

9 comments:

Some lefty sites were decrying this as another Bush appointee gone wrong. I’m not going to try and tie this guy to hard to Bush, as I am sure he doesn’t personally pick the Deputy Secretary for Public Affairs for Homeland Security or whatever the hell this guy was, but you can direct your questions and pointed fingers to Chertoff if you like…

As far as “Doylie” himself, he was obviously doing a heck of a job. Anyone dumb enough to do this stuff from work, using his office phone, official cell phone, and pictures of himself as well as identifying himself by his job title falls short of even Arabian Horse Council qualifications.

I think Pooh's right, this guy had been around for years before Bush, but I'll still play shadenfruede...

Besides, you're clearly using that BS standard of accountability known as "truthful". I'm sure if we played enough 7-degrees of Bush, as the repubs did in the 90s with Clinton, we can figure a way to connect them.

Regardless of who he knows, at least we now know part of the reason the Katrina response was so poor. Someone was tying up the phone lines with indecent proposals to girls.

Wingnut Friend of Pooh - "He knew it was an undercover all the time, and was just trying to score with a cop. He was into role-playing like that." Something tells me this theory is already swarming about on Red State...